Aerospace design applications often require the integration of multiple engineering disciplines,
including optical systems, signal processing, modeling and simulation, control systems, and focal plane
electronics. Interdisciplinary design challenges such as those faced by aerospace engineers call for a
robust set of tools that can be easily integrated and shared among a diverse group of technical
specialists. This aerospace application shows how The MathWorks family of tools can be used to
develop a complex simulation model for an optical tracker mounted on a gimbaled platform. The
application also describes the development of a Kalman filter–based tracker for a radar processing task.
The ease-of-use, coding efficiency, and seamless product integration provided by the M